Jack Valenti died on Thursday, April 26, 2007. He was the head of the Motion Picture Association of America. He was a shill for monied interests who want to rob and sue the poor. Like all people of good sense, I'm glad he's dead.
But wait, Zac, you might be saying (if you're both un-informed and a pussy), why are you speaking ill of this dead guy? What could he possibly have done to deserve being insulted after death?
Well, he said that VCRs would kill the movie industry. Which they obviously didn't. And he pushed to get the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) passed. The DMCA is the piece of legislation that allows rich fucks who own media companies to harass and sue college students who download "Hey-Ya" or whatever it is that college students are downloading these days.
Valenti tirelessly worked to line the pockets of assholes and parasites who disingenuously and cynically characterize mix-tapes as products of parasitic illegal behavior, just so they can extort people. And they use the justice system to do it!
Our deeds should determine how people talk about us after death. In late April of 1945, only assholes said nice things about Hitler. And no one should have said anything nice about him. I'm not comparing Valenti to Hitler. I'm just saying that the notion that you should say nice things about the dead is dumb. I'm sure Fox News will find nice stuff to say about George W. Bush when he dies in fifteen or twenty years, but I hope that reasonable people avoid saying that he was articulate and impressive.
Sunday, 29 April 2007
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He's also one of the main causes of the film industry's censorship of sex before violence.
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